Through the Lands of the Serb (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Through the Lands of the SerbI should not advise you to go to Montenegro - a most mischievous race. And what about Bosnia and the Herzegovina? Oh, you will be quite safe there, we govern that. They are a bad lot, though! But we don't stand any nonsense.Thus either party seizes upon the stranger and tries to prevent his views being prejudiced. He seldom has need to complain that he has heard one side only, but there is a Catholic side, an Orthodox side, a Mohammedan side, there are German, Slav, Italian, Turkish, and Albanian sides and when he has heard them all he feels far less capable of forming an Opinion on the Eastern Question than he did before.Dalmatia has its charms, but tourists swarm there, and the picturesque corners are being rapidly pulled down to provide suitable accommodation for them. Let us pass on, then, nor pause till we have wound our way through that wonderful maze of fiords, the Bocche, and landed on the quay at Cattaro. Cattaro is a tiny, greatly coveted, much-fought-for town. The natural port for Montenegro but the property of Austria, it Swelters, breathless, on a strip of shore, with the waters in front of it, and the great wall of the Black Mountain rising sheer up behind. Its heart's in the Highlands, but the enemy holds it as a garrison town the Austrian army pervades the neighbourhood, and a big fort, lurking Opposite, commands the one road from mountain to coast. Cattaro, after all, is only a half way house to Montenegro, and this is why Austria lavishes so many troops. Upon it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.